First I will acknowledge that this is my first RedState diary. I’m from South Dakota, the great conservative state of the upper Midwest. Thanks for taking the time to read my submission, and my appreciation to RedState. In a scene from the movie “The American President”, Lewis Rothschild (portrayed by Michael J. Fox) has a heated verbal exchange with President Andrew Shepherd (portrayed by Michael | Read More »

Vernese Edghill-Walden, NIU diversity officer Why are college students the nation over saddled with a combine student loan debt of around a trillion dollars? Why does the cost(tuition) at public colleges continue to soar costing students, their families, and taxpayers $40,000 a year or more with no end in sight? Well part of the problem lays with colleges and universities paying | Read More »

I don’t support Donald Trump for President and never will, primarily because I have no idea where his true political convictions lie and because he was a Democrat until the day before yesterday. But the surging success of his campaign has delivered an important message that every conservative should take to heart. Political correctness, the idea that certain people get to decide what the rest of us | Read More »

As Hillary’s poll numbers sink, and the headlines about her many scandals increase, Democrats are starting to publicly admit what many have known for a long time: their putative candidate is deeply flawed, not trusted by a majority of Americans, and may be facing serious legal issues in the coming months. Thus, we are now seeing a plethora of stories to the effect that Joe | Read More »

On Monday, two felony charges will be unsealed against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and the liberal media will feast on his humiliation and booking in another episode of Big Game Hunting: Lawfare Edition. After the indictments are unsealed, Paxton can surrender to be photographed, fingerprinted and booked at any of the state’s 254 county jails. Kent Schaffer, one of the special prosecutors, has previously told News 8 | Read More »

From 1479 to 1425 B.C., King Tuthmose III ruled Egypt and expanded its empire to the largest stretches in its history. For twenty of those years, he was co-regent with his step-mother and aunt, Hatshepsut. After assuming full control after her death and later in his rule, he ordered the destruction and defacement of monuments and tombs to his co-regent, aunt and step-mother in an | Read More »

[mc_name name='Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)' chamber='senate' mcid='P000603' ] speaking in Niles, ILKentucky Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul was in Niles in the north suburbs of Chicago Saturday afternoon to speak to nearly 300 supports about half of them millennials. The outspoken defender of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights repeatedly emphasized the need to defend all of our | Read More »

Crossposted on my blog, MuskogeePolitico.com In the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC, there was a great struggle for Mediterranean dominance between the Roman Republic and Carthage, with three devastating wars fought between the two powers. Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator and writer who, toward the end of his life, was obsessed with the fear that Carthage would once again grow | Read More »

Despite taking measures to secure her private server, this writer is in possession of Hillary Clinton’s personal diary. Don’t ask me how I got it. All I can say is that it involves someone from Great Britain (who likes Swedish girls) and an Ecuadorian embassy. July 4th: Dear diary- Today I took part in a parade in NH. Too bad those reporters had to stay | Read More »

Below is an email I have sent to all members of the Republican National Committee. It contains my solution to an unnecessary problem that could become a thermonuclear stink bomb at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. During the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, our Virginia delegation and many others were outraged during the roll call of the states to name our presidential | Read More »

This upcoming Monday evening, August 3rd, the U.S. Senate will vote on a bill (S. 1881) sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)63% that would stop taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. In the latest reportable year, Planned Parenthood received $528 million – over half a billion dollars – in taxpayer funding. During that same period, they performed 327,653 abortions, and have performed | Read More »

On Tuesday, Senator and presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)100% (R-TX) had this to say about Obama’s deal with Iran: “If this deal is consummated, it will make the Obama administration the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism. Billions of dollars under the control of this administration will flow into the hands of jihadists who will use that money to | Read More »

I am not making this up. A New York judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Nonhuman Rights Project to grant personhood to two chimpanzees, named Hercules and Leo. This isn’t the first attempt to grant “human” status to chimps: last year a judge threw out a similar request for a chimp named Tommy. But the worst part isn’t the fact that self-hating humans keep trying to | Read More »

The Republicans campaigning and running for President in 2016 better regroup and get real – their constituents deserve better than what they’re getting from these Republicans in 2015. americans want the real deal – a man or women who is a leader not a political robot dressed up in a fancy suit spieling fancy sophisticated hand-written idiotic speeches. They’re tired of the lies and false | Read More »

CJ Pearson just turned 13, but he is already planning his run for President. And there are over 45,000 loyal Facebook followers ready to support him. How did he become such a celebrity? Pearson started making videos and became a YouTube sensation, with his largest video attracting nearly 2 million views. It isn’t everyday you see a 12-year old black kid articulately advocating for conservative principles on the | Read More »

In an unusual development, an establishment oriented candidate is testing the waters to run in NC’s second Congressional district represented by liberal Republican incumbent Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC)58%. The race already features a substantial conservative challenger, former Chatham County GOP chairman Jim Duncan, and perennial candidate Frank Roche. Now, just resigned NC Secretary of Tranportation Tony Tata is also reported to | Read More »

The failure/ineptness/unwillingness (take your pick, or “all of the above”) of GOP leadership to move forward aggressively on key issues, such as shutting down Planned Parenthood, or halting the Iran nuclear deal, has brought conservative frustrations with Congress to a head. Eric has a diary today, Shut Down The Government. Now. and Steve Berman tells us that 140 House Members are Ready to #DefundPlannedParenthood So why | Read More »

I have become a one issue voter. It’s not because I don’t care about the federal deficit, or the crushing weight of student loan debt, or Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. Those things matter. But they matter less than our government actively participating in the abhorrent and evil trade of dead baby flesh. Priorities are easy to set when one has a consistent world view, and | Read More »

On Tuesday, New York City’s largest pension fund voted to move forward with potential divestment from gun sellers. The New York City Employee Retirement System (NYCERS) board passed a resolution to research the impact of abandoning stocks from weapon retailers such as Walmart, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Cabela’s. The measure was sponsored by Public Advocate Letitia James. Next, a consultant will conduct an analysis of | Read More »

Here’s video number four [Content warning: some of thijs is pretty gruesome]: This one hits Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains affiliates, with investigators posing as buyers looking for “intact specimens.” They spoke with PPRM’s Vice President and Medical Director, Dr. Savita Ginde. “We’d have to do a little bit of training with the providers or something to make sure that they don’t crush” fetal organs during 2nd | Read More »

If I kill an endangered lion in Africa and bring its head and skin home to be stuffed, I will be fined anywhere between $500 and $10,500, depending on how many times I’m caught doing it—not to mention calls for my soul to be fed to Cthulhu after my body is slow roasted on a spit. But if I sell my own plasma or sperm, | Read More »

I’m amazed by how often society fixates on shiny objects and completely ignores things that matter. This week, the shiny object was Cecil the Lion. I’m sure Planned Parenthood is very happy about Cecil. Instead of talking about the little shop of horrors PP has been running for years, the media is talking about the evils of lion hunting. Instead of investigating what laws Planned | Read More »

If you read the scientific stuff, like the journals Nature and Science, etc., then you will be faced with all the scientific research that has been contributing to the consensus opinion that greenhouse warming has been triggered by human activity in the world, the so-called anthropogenic greenhouse effect. I’ve been reading this stuff for years and I don’t think there is some loony leftist conspiracy | Read More »

Yeah if you didn’t want to or just unwittingly didn’t believe Donald Trump was officially the front runner for the Republican nomination for president, a Daily Beast assassination attempt disguised as a “news story” lets us know plain and clear that in fact Mr. Trump is the clear cut #1 in the field. Donald Trump won’t take this lying down I would imagine, but who | Read More »

The nuclear deal with Iran is a full-fledged disaster. The terms of the agreement are truly frightening, but they represent just the tip of the messy iceberg this process has become. To address just one heinous term of the deal that should independently disqualify it, Iran will have up to 24 days to respond to a concern, or to provide access to an inspector, should | Read More »

So just over eighteen hours ago, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)83% put in a resolution to Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)N/A% to “vacate the chair.” He composed a list of grievances, a list that has been hashed and re-hashed ALL OVER these Redstate Diaries for over four years! Meadows lists the Speaker’s attempt to “consolidate power and centralize decision-making… punish | Read More »

- The objectives of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) are referred to as the “Aims of Scouting” and they are: moral character development, citizenship training, and development of physical, mental, and emotional fitness. The Boy Scout oath states, in part, that a scout will do his duty to God and his country, to keep himself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight. Yet | Read More »

The Senate is going to vote on a “right wing crazy deal” (as Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)14% calls it) before the August recess. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)87% supplied the bluster, but Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)63% along with a core group of senators pushed through a deal that will allow a floor vote on | Read More »

All too often we find the Constitution kicked to the curb, stomped upon and left for dead but a new decision by the D.C. Court of Appeals shows it still might have a heartbeat. At issue is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the crown jewel of liberal governance. The agency, created by the Dodd Franks financial reform bill, is one like no other. Shielded | Read More »

Can Trump Trump [The Ruling Class]? http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/07/does-trump-trump-angelo-codevilla-on-our-present-moment.php “The 2016 election is simple; the person who runs on the platform ‘Who do they think they are?’ will win.” Angelo Codevilla In “his essay-turned-book The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It [Angelo Codevilla] caught the attention of Rush Limbaugh and many others. It argues that our fundamental political problem is | Read More »

Mention any Clinton scandal and inevitably the name of Cheryl Mills will appear. She was Bill Clinton’s deputy counsel in his years in the White House and is best known for defending the President in his impeachment hearing before the Senate. But there is a more sinister side to her White House tenure. She forged a relationship with Hillary during this period and appears as | Read More »

Folks, I am delighted to give the top spot this morning to my friend, Owen Strachan. Owen also has a new book out today called The Colson Way. I hope you’ll join me in ordering it. It is a solid read on Chuck Colson and his ministry. Please order the book and thanks to Owen’s boldness in the post below. — Erick “As a society, | Read More »

Demetra DeMonte Speaking at Tuesday nights meeting of the LaSalle County Tea Party Republican National Committeewoman, and former RNC Secretary Demetra DeMonte took a question from the audience about the growing anger the conservative base of the Republican Party has with GOP leadership who continually lie to get elected and make big promises only to do nothing once they get to | Read More »

140 House members are on board to defund Planned Parenthood. That means only 78 more are needed to pass a bill before the August recess. This is the best opportunity the House has to deal with the issue while public outrage is at its peak, and before the forces of darkness at the command of the death merchants can be marshaled to squelch this rebellion | Read More »

Very impressive. My ticket of choice for 2016 is now Cruz/Fiorina. If this lady isn’t onstage next week, it’s a shame. And I think, if she picks her spot carefully, she could deflate the Gasbag, aka Trump. Enjoy:

Well, if Planned Parenthood thought they were going to get off the hook, they were incredibly mistaken. The Center for Medical Progress released another undercover video this morning, and this one is probably the most sickening one yet. I hesitate to include the link, because it is so unspeakably grisly. But if you’re still not convinced Planned Parenthood is evil, go watch it. Remember that | Read More »

The modern abortion movement denies the humanity of its little victims. When a group is seen as sub-human, killing them becomes acceptable, and using their bodies for any purpose at all seems to their oppressors just fine. Slavery One of the driving forces of the American abolitionist movement was the sexual abuse of black female slaves by their white masters. Abolitionists argued that if the slaves | Read More »

Political debates have always occasionally veered into incivility, with many examples preserved for the ages in the pamphlets published during the American Revolution. In my adult life, I’ve heard countless examples, and am confident in saying that the most extreme statements consistently come from the left. (Have conservatives ever engaged in anything so disgusting as what leftists did to Justice Thomas?) So it’s always a | Read More »

We hear the charge leveled all the time: “Flip-flopper.” When someone fundamentally changes their position on an issue. We are naturally left to wonder if the move is genuine. Are they are saying what they think – or what they think we want to hear? Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has rocketed to to the top of the sixteen-candidate heap – in large part because | Read More »

During the 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan cultivated a following of disaffected Democrats, known as “Reagan Democrats.” The cross-over vote almost certainly helped Reagan crush Jimmy Carter at the polls. Now, Jeb Bush is developing his own cadre of “Bush Democrats” but this crop sports more than just blue politics—their attraction to Bush is because of blue blood. Jeb Bush smells like money. The scent emanates | Read More »

It’s sometimes said that you can tell a lot about a person by the friends they keep. That makes sense. Friendships are generally based on complementary personalities, shared values, and a variety of intangibles that cause people to bond. Money in politics is a similar barometer. The vast majority of Americans never donate any money to politicians or get involved in politics at all. For | Read More »

Immigration and “Fundamental Transformation” This article shows how the Dems are using legal and illegal immigration to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” This article shows why for Reps, conservatives and everyone who believes in the principles on which America was founded and which made her the greatest country that has ever existed, immigration must be the #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 issue. | Read More »

This is not a new idea. While the nation turns its back on comedian Bill Cosby, the post-White House career of Bill Clinton soars. Yet, what is the difference between the two scenarios? As far as this writer can tell, Cosby used drugs; Clinton used his political prestige. What it boils down to is that Clinton has a better damage control/public relations apparatus behind him. | Read More »

Already, before sanctions are lifted, global oil prices are feeling the pressure of Iran’s increased exports. Since the deal’s been announced, crude prices have lost almost all of the recent gains.
While the Obama Administration’s actions are allowing Iran, which hates America, to boost its economy by increasing its oil exports, they are hurting our closest ally but putting delay after delay in front of the Keystone pipeline—which would help Canada export its oil.

On Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)100% took to the Senate floor and accused Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)58% of lying, and then eviscerated the GOP Senate majority’s record for this Congress. Politico reports that Cruz: “…accused the Senate majority leader of breaking his word to him and the rest of the GOP conference over McConnell’s | Read More »

Episode 114 of the Consider This Podcast has been released; conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. Is it legal to refuse service to someone at a food establishment? Can a business decide who it will and won’t serve? Yes it is. If you are openly carrying a firearm, the Whataburger chain in Texas will kick you out, even though open-carry is legal in that state. That’s | Read More »

The state of New York is raising their minimum wage from $8.75 to $15 per hour. Not for all employees. Just for the chosen. If you’re a fast food worker in New York, your minimum wage will be $15, or $0 if you get laid off, and some will meet that fate. Why just fast food workers? Because that industry has been targeted by the | Read More »